--- title: N-Drip Irrigation Results in Bronte, New South Wales, Australia image: https://wp.ndrip.com/hubfs/img.png --- [![N-Drip-Logo](https://wp.ndrip.com/hs-fs/hubfs/N-Drip-Logo.png?width=159&height=45&name=N-Drip-Logo.png "N-Drip-Logo")](http://www.ndrip.com) ![Bannercs](https://wp.ndrip.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Bannercs.webp?width=803&height=300&name=Bannercs.webp) [![Contact us](https://hubspot-no-cache-eu1-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/default/143144817/4d3d56d0-d46a-4dc6-a142-2588616667aa.png)](https://hubspot-cta-redirect-eu1-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/cta/redirect/143144817/4d3d56d0-d46a-4dc6-a142-2588616667aa) ## Bronte Farm achieves x5 greater yield than dryland with N-Drip ![Cotton](https://wp.ndrip.com/hubfs/Cotton.svg) ### Cotton #### N-Drip 7.42 ba/ha #### Dryland 1.45 ba/ha ![Barley](https://wp.ndrip.com/hubfs/Barley.svg) ### Barley #### N-Drip 3.2 MT/ha #### Dryland 0 MT/ha ## At a Glance ![grower](https://wp.ndrip.com/hubfs/grower.svg) ### Grower Peter Birch, in partnership with Boolah Farms ![Cropping_area](https://wp.ndrip.com/hubfs/Cropping_area.svg) ### Cropping area Total: 140ha N-Drip: 96ha Dry land: 44ha ![Crop](https://wp.ndrip.com/hubfs/Crop.svg) ### Crop Summer 2022/2023 - XtendFlex 3141 cotton Winter 2023 - Planet barley ![Watersource](https://wp.ndrip.com/hubfs/Watersource.svg) ### Water source Basic landholder rights allocation stored in a surge and a dam ## Background Bronte at Pallamallawa in north-western New South Wales, Australia, is farmed by Peter Birch in partnership with Boolah Farms. In addition to farming, Peter is also a highly-regarded agronomist and successful business man. 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And we've got the N-Drip Connect, it's a good backup system for when you're looking at your paddock. In the 30-hectare block, bottom end, only did 2.5 bales a hectare where the dry land section was and the N-Drip did 7 bales. ### Mick Hockey, #### Cotton grower, Spring Rideg, NSW N-Drip is an excellent solution for converting dryland into irrigated cotton. I personally utilized N-Drip this season on a 50ha block. The results were excellent. If I had grown this block as dryland cotton, I would have probably achieved 2.7Ba/ha as this was my dryland cotton average, but with N-Drip, we semi irrigated and yielded 11.5Ba/ha. ![author](https://wp.ndrip.com/hs-fs/hubfs/author.png?width=149&height=150&name=author.png) ### Andrew Watson, #### Agronomist and Cotton grower, Moree, NSW It's been a great journey with N-Drip. We are always looking for efficiencies, and the whole cotton industry over the last 20 years has doubled their water use efficiency from 1Ba/ML to 2Ba/ML. That quest of increasing productivity continues, and N-Drip is a large part of it.  ### Howard Rother, #### Cotton Grower, Cecil Plains, QLD We are happy with the average of 7.42 bales per hectare picked, given our dryland cotton averaged just 1.45 bales per hectare, with only 3.3 megalitres of water per hectare used as a supplementary irrigation solution, this was a great result.  ### Peter Birch #### Agronomist and Cotton Grower, Moree, NSW ![Pictures-for-Aus-Facebook-campaign](https://wp.ndrip.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Pictures-for-Aus-Facebook-campaign.webp?width=1080&height=1080&name=Pictures-for-Aus-Facebook-campaign.webp) ## Limited Conference Offer! - Come meet us at the 2024 Australian Cotton Conference - 6-8 August Site 7 | Gold Coast LEARN MORE ![N-Drip-Logo-whitefont](https://wp.ndrip.com/hs-fs/hubfs/N-Drip-Logo-whitefont.png?width=2000&height=800&name=N-Drip-Logo-whitefont.png) About Us N-Drip is an innovative irrigation solution that enables farmers to produce higher yields while saving on water, fertilisers and labour. 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